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09-26-2006, 02:12 PM
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'Amazed' Controllers Watched Damage 747 Depart
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09-26-2006, 06:57 PM
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Maybe that's why we kicked their a s s e s in the 1700'ss...
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09-27-2006, 05:22 AM
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And if we hadn't given you jet technology, you would still be developing the radial engine 
Oh, and if George Cayley - the correct father of flight hadn't flown in the UK some time before Orv and Wilb, they may not have got the right inspiration 
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09-27-2006, 05:38 AM
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Oh yeah????
But Mr. Mike,
Just how many airplanes do we Americans IMPORT from other countries? How many do we EXPORT ?
Same thing applies to immigrants........how many want to leave?
Touchdown, eh?
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09-27-2006, 06:13 AM
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So by and large, the difference between the British effort and the American effort was Charles Taylor?
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09-27-2006, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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No Score - Pierre
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Originally Posted by pierre smith
But Mr. Mike,
Just how many airplanes do we Americans IMPORT from other countries? How many do we EXPORT ?
Same thing applies to immigrants........how many want to leave?
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Pierre..... no score for our side here....
For General Aviation.... 2003 is the last year of figures for free...
Exports from US = 349
Imports into US = 665
We got almost as many planes in from Canada than were shipped to the rest of the world....  ... (Bombardier ? ..eh)
Note - only General Aviation numbers quoted here.
Figures on the import/export of immigrants are much less reliable and harder to come by.... 
Links here...
http://www.aia-aerospace.org/stats/f...5/FF04P028.PDF
http://www.aia-aerospace.org/stats/f...5/FF04P129.PDF
Check facts and figures before making assumptions....
These numbers may go up significantly when the LSA market takes off, since most present contenders seem to be non-US.
gil in Tucson
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09-27-2006, 09:58 AM
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I hate to do this...NOT
Because its so easy to point to British achievements
OK here are 2 of them....world land speed record (supersonic) and most recently, diesel land speed record, used 2 (somewhat modified) backhoe engines.
Of course the Supersonic record was using two jet engines which of course we invented as well.
Now IF ONLY we had a space programme.
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09-27-2006, 10:01 AM
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Don't think so
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Originally Posted by prporter
Maybe that's why we kicked their a s s e s in the 1700'ss...
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You did this because you fought like cowards...Hiding behind rocks instead of standing in full view of your enemy in a bright red uniform!
Stiff upper lip I tell ya...
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09-27-2006, 11:16 AM
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Ok - you're a passenger on the 747 and you see the engine belching fire on takeoff, then a little while later the flight attendant asks , "Would you like some peanuts? We'll be serving the meal later in the flight."
Answer: "No thanks, just a change of underwear please."
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09-27-2006, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Originally Posted by pierre smith
Same thing applies to immigrants........how many want to leave?
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I think you'd be surprised... http://www.escapeartist.com/
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